The Don, later Don-Wauchope Baronetcy, of Newton, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 7 June 1667 for Alexander Don. The sixth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire The seventh Baronet was an actor. On his early death in 1862 the title passed to his kinsman John Wauchope, the eighth Baronet, who resumed the surname of Don in addition to that of Wauchope. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Wauchope, great-great-grandson of Patrick Don (husband of Anne, sister of Andrew Wauchope), third son of the first Baronet.

The "ch" in Wauchope is pronounced as in "Loch"; commented upon as a "puzzle in pronunciation" in the case of Andrew Wauchope during his 1892 political campaign against William Ewart Gladstone, when it was reported that he was "spoken of as Walk-up, Walk-hope, Wok-up, Watch-up, and Woochop ... the proper pronunciation appears to be Woke-up."[1]

Don, later Don-Wauchope baronets, of Newton (1667)

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Escutcheon of the Don-Wauchope baronets
 
The grave of Patrick George Don-Wauchope, Comely Bank Cemetery

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  1. ^ The Phonetic Journal, 3 September, 1892, vol. 51, Sir Isaac Pitman, p. 562

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